Keh-Jiann Chen obtained a B.S. in mathematics from National Cheng Kung University in 1972. He received a Ph.D. in computer science from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1981. Since then he joined the Institute of Information Science as an associate research fellow and became a research fellow in 1989. He was the deputy director of the institute from August 1991 to July 1994.
        His research interest includes natural language processing, Chinese computing and artificial intelligence. He is the co-director of Chinese Knowledge Information Processing Group(CKIP). Currently CKIP is working on Chinese lexicon, Chinese corpora and Chinese parser.